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That Time It Rained for Two Million Years | Eons

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Published October 5, 2023 at 5:00 AM CDT

At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, flat, and very, very dry. But then 234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for the wetter.

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